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Cathryn Kemp
Sub-genre: Biography, Historical, True Crime
Cathryn Kemp is a Sunday Times/Amazon #1 bestselling author and ghostwriter, with a prolofic career writing celebrity, public figure, true crime, inspirational, nostalgia and addiction memoirs. Her memoir, COMING CLEAN, won the Big Red Read Prize for Non Fiction.
A POISONER’S TALE is Cathryn’s first foray into historical fiction, and is published by Penguin Random House. Her second novel, THEY CAN’T BURN US ALL, is published January 2026.
When not researching dark and dangerous women from history, Cathryn can be found hanging out with her son and familiar, a ginger cat, at their glorious wreck of a Victorian house in St Leonards-on-Sea.
Other Awards
The Big Red Read Prize for Non Fiction
The Peter Wilson Journalism Award
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